Originally Posted by
PoliceStateSurvivor
If my memory serves me right, the aiport searches with X-ray machines and WTMDs were upheld, in part, because the intrusion was minimal compared to the compelling need of keeping guns off the airplanes.
I think the issue needs to be reopened - the intrusion is far from minimal. Any lawyers on this board that might be intersted?
I truly think that anytime someone's children get put through, the parents need to hit TSA with kiddie-porn complaints. After all, that's exactly what it *IS*. If a passenger went through the checkpoint with a MMW picture of a child in his carryon and got a bag check, they'd get arrested.
(at TSA, not over someone getting busted for kiddie porn - thought I'd better clarify my mad-face)
Perhaps adults not in favor of being forced to be exhibitionists should file sexual-harassment complaints. After all, they're being forced to essentially appear naked in front of someone in return for being permitted to do something they have an unquestionable right to do (fly on a common carrier). It would seem to this layman that the definition of sexual harassment is satisfied.